At a rehearsal for the opening number of Sunday night's Oscar show at the Kodak Theatre, tiny, plain-clotheddancers pranced over glossy laser-cut laminate in what felt like a sparkly,white-on-white dream sequence. "5-6-7-8!" Seated in the audience, architect David Rockwell was dressed in black jeans, Asics runningshoes and a black Academy zip-up, surveying his latest spectacle. "It's going to be terrifying all overagain," he said, over the syncopated four-counts. "Which I love."

At a rehearsal for the opening number of Sunday night's Oscar show at the Kodak Theatre, tiny, plain-clotheddancers pranced over glossy laser-cut laminate in what felt like a sparkly,white-on-white dream sequence. "5-6-7-8!" Seated in the audience, architect David Rockwell was dressed in black jeans, Asics runningshoes and a black Academy zip-up, surveying his latest spectacle. "It's going to be terrifying all overagain," he said, over the syncopated four-counts. "Which I love."

The 1987 film "Planes, Trains and Automobiles" tells the story of Neal Page (Steve Martin), an uptight advertising exec whose hour and 45-minute flight home to Chicago for Thanksgiving turns into an epic misadventure.